The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

The Boston people were willing to learn but only if one recognized how much they knew already.

How delightful is the company of generous people who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.